The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction.
The volume will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars..
The commentary is literary in emphasis but also treats questions of syntax, textual reconstruction, metre and dialect.
The Introduction discusses major issues in the study of Greek lyric including genre, performance and transmission.
Both longer and shorter pieces are included.
This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina convivalia and passages from Timotheus\' Persians.
It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity.
The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction
